Soldering appliance.



PATENTED FEB. 4, 1908.

0. OJ BLAKE. SOLDERING APPLIANCE. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 22, 1906.

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" CHARLES o. ,BLAKE', or -"BROOK'LINE, MASSACHUSETTS.

SOLDERING APPLIANCE.-

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented reb..4., 1908.

Application filed November 22. 1906. Serial No. 344.660.

To all whom it may concern:

tubes are made usually of thin-metal of some soft alloy, and when the contents are desired the end of the tube is squeezed and the contained liquid or aste is squirted from its orizfice. So far as am aware such flexible tubes containing the liquid or pasty flux have an orifice for the exit of the same like that of a bottle. a

My invention consists of a flexible tube having'a s out or nozzle preferably detachable from t e tube, and to prevent-the burn-' ing or fusing of the same when placed near to or upon the seam, or edge of the metal to be soldered-, and adjacent to the hot solderin iron, I make the said-spout of some meta which will not fuse or become clogged with the melted solder commonl used, and I referably. employ the metal a uminium. also seal the mouth of the spout or nozzl when made as an article of manufacture wit some easily fusible substance as rosin in order that the'llquid or filasty flux will not escape. All of WhlCh I w jIlOW proceed to describe and point out in -the-appended claims.

Of the drawings which illustrate'the inven- 40 /tion: Figure 1 is a perspective view of a flexi-.-

ble tube. Fig. 21s a side view of a flexible tube partly in section, and Figs. 3 and 4 are side and end views of a modification.

Both 'of the forms are provided with a spout or nozzleadapted for use in connection with soldering appliances, embodying the invention.

In the drawingst represents a soft orflexible tube'closed at one end and provided at its opposite endwith a thickened portion or ring c. having an internal screw 6 and ais a spout ornozzle externally screw-threaded at one end a which is adapted to fit into the of. solderin receptacle 1 or, the flux provided with a metal ringc while its opposite may be flattened, as represented in Fig. '1, and have a slitted orifice c, or the end may be conical as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, and'havea circular orifice In either case the Walls of the spout are made thick enough to withstand the usage necessary without bending the same. If such tubes as described wereprovided with spouts made of tinned .iron or similarmetals and brought into contact with melted solder their orifices c and f would be closed by the same, as the solder, would adhere thereto.

To prevent this trouble I make the spout or nozzle of some metaLto which melted solder of the ordinary kindwill not adhere, such as I therefore provide'a spout or nozzle which can be used with perfect impunity in connection withthe melted solder employed to-attach other metals than aluminium' to one another. The tube is filled with the ordinary paste or flux g, which is apt to aluminium, which is well known cannot be "soldered with the fluxes and solders in common use.

run out from the orifice of the spout unless orifice which is objectionable in that it is apt tobe forced inwardand prevent theflow of the flux. of the spout, produced-by inserting it into melted rosin which hardens when cool and prevents the paste from flowing, but iseasily melted by bringing the spout near the heat, and the article of manufacture is so stopped whendelivered to the market.

I claim as my invention: 1, A-hand implementfor the application of solderin flux, comprising a collapsible receptacle r the flux provided with a redu'ced-outlet spout or nozzle constructed of stiff'rnetal having an aversion for solderand less fusible than solder. A

2. A hand implement-for the application of soldering flux, comprising a'collapsible re- ;ceptacle for the flux provided with a taper- .cient st'flness to avoid bending when-the flux is ap li d to, ityt ansolder. I

,3. A hand implement for the. ap lication flux, comprising a. co apsible position for use, and less fusibil- 1 provide a stopper h in this end a 5 der, 3, fusible stopper beingjinserted in "the Witnesses:

spout-01 nozzle the characterisname to this specification in the presence of tics of'avers'ion for-solder, sufficient stiffness Ytwo subscribing witnesses, this 20th day-of to avoid bending when the flux is applied to November 1906. v position for use, and less fusibility than sol- CHARLES C. BLAKE,

orifice of saidnozz'le. GEO. WIL IS PIERCE, In testimony whereof, I have signed my "JA ES E. LYNCH. 

